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Awards
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Technical Acumen
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Oliver Yang

Coppell,TX

Summary

A highly motivated and dynamic professional with extensive experience in building and managing Professional Services and Client Solution Engineering Organizations, defining Go-To-Market strategies, managing pre-sales and post-sales engagements, and delivering high-impact customer projects on time. Proven track record of building high-growth and fast-paced business. Adept at developing high-performing teams capable of delivering the technological requirements to accommodate business and market demands for diverse clients in SMB and Upper-Market. Expertise in large complex integration solutioning.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Engineering Service

Paycor HCM Inc.
03.2022 - Current
  • Grow and manage team of pre-sales and post-sales architects and solution engineers to successfully deliver customer solutions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and reseller projects on time and under budget
  • Partner closely with Sales, Marketing and Alliance teams to support end-to-end sales cycle for new and existing customers
  • Focus on enhancing functionalities of core integration platform, which involves developing API-based frameworks with no-code or low-code capabilities for third-party vendor integrations
  • Mentor and coach team members to improve technical solutioning skills and Presales skills

Achievements:

  • Cultivated a shift from project-centric to sales-centric and customer-centric culture, enhancing customer success focus
  • Successfully led the execution of multiple business initiatives including mergers and acquisitions, resellers, and presales, and thus, generated over $80M in sales annually

Lead Architect, US & Mexico Digital Sector

Citibank
01.2016 - 03.2022
  • Led and drove US & Mexico Digital cross-functional teams to successfully migrated existing legacy TIBCO applications to microservices in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), which enabled elasticity to create a robust open banking platform
  • Led and drove global TIBCO EMS to Solace EMS messaging and Apache Kafka migration projects
  • Managed and drove end-to-end CI/CD automation implementation for multiple digital, mobile and legacy releases/projects to meet rapid Digital and Mexico business demands

Achievements:

  • Acted as a trusted advisor, successfully translated Mexico business objectives into an effective & agile process driven technology strategy
  • Completed digital transformation initiative to overhaul the Mobile Banking application release engineering process, resulting in a 30% increase in mobile app usage
  • Successfully led the first public cloud risk assessment and mitigation program, encompassing cloud observability, architecture, and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS

Head, Global TIBCO ESB Development & Platform

Citibank
01.2011 - 03.2016
  • Managed and drove the development of global TIBCO ESB roadmap, strategy, and platform for GCB (Global Consumer Bank)
  • Cultivated exceptional teams by actively inspiring, coaching, and setting goals for over 250 developers with a focus on their growth and development
  • Facilitated collaborations with cross-functional teams and vendors such as TIBCO, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, enabling efficient creation of technical objectives based on business objectives

Achievements:

  • Spearheaded the establishment of high-performing global TIBCO ESB development team and best practices
  • Achieved 25% cost savings in labor, platform and infrastructure

Sr. Technical Delivery Manager, Professional Service Group

TIBCO Software Inc.
01.2005 - 12.2010
  • Managed TIBCO professional service consulting practice in US Central region with P/L responsibilities
  • Managed and delivered consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies
  • Worked closely with Sales team to identify pre-sales opportunities, creating product interest by providing and presenting solutioning to close product license deals
  • Oversaw end-to-end project management for customer implementations, ensuring successful delivery within agreed timelines, budget, and quality standards

Achievements:

  • Supported closing multiple large software license deals ($20M+) every year consistently
  • Created effective service delivery model by sub-contracting 3rd party consulting firms to achieve higher margin (20%)

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science -

Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics -

Nanchang University
Nanchang, China

Skills

  • Hands-on Architecture Design (TOGAF)
  • API Integration
  • Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
  • Business Process Improvement
  • SDLC and Agile Methodologies
  • Technical Pre-Sales
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Consultation and Project Administration
  • Business Development
  • Employee Training and Leadership

Professional Development

  • Azure DevOps Boards for Project Managers/Analyst/Developers
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • TIBCO SOA (service-oriented architecture) Certification

Awards

Digital Transformation Award – Citibank

Volunteer Experience

  • Member of #CitiVolunteers in Dallas, TX
  • Member of #CitiVolunteers in Boston, MA
  • Teaching Chess and Math in community centers

Technical Acumen

REST API, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, React, C/C++, Shell Script, SQL, Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, AppDynamics, Splunk, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, MQ, TIBCO, MuleSoft, JMS, Power BI, Snowflake, Report Builder, SSO, SAML, Okta

Timeline

Director, Engineering Service

Paycor HCM Inc.
03.2022 - Current

Lead Architect, US & Mexico Digital Sector

Citibank
01.2016 - 03.2022

Head, Global TIBCO ESB Development & Platform

Citibank
01.2011 - 03.2016

Sr. Technical Delivery Manager, Professional Service Group

TIBCO Software Inc.
01.2005 - 12.2010

Master's Degree in Computer Science -

Harbin Institute of Technology

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics -

Nanchang University
Oliver Yang